C-SPAN - Results of its Second Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership

[kpete]

Here are the ranking of the presidents

1. Abraham Lincoln

2. George Washington

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt

4. Theodore Roosevelt

5. Harry S. Truman

6. John F. Kennedy

7. Thomas Jefferson

8. Dwight D. Eisenhower

9. Woodrow Wilson

10. Ronald Reagan

11. Lyndon B. Johnson

12. James K. Polk

13. Andrew Jackson

14. James Monroe

15. Bill Clinton (Clinton and Monroe are tied in the list)

16. William McKinley

17. John Adams

18. George H. W. Bush

19. John Quincy Adams

20. James Madison

21. Grover Cleveland

22. Gerald R. Ford

23. Ulysses S. Grant

24. William Howard Taft

25. Jimmy Carter

26. Calvin Coolidge

27. Richard M. Nixon

28. James A. Garfield

29. Zachary Taylor

30. Benjamin Harrison

31. Martin Van Buren

32. Chester A. Arthur

33. Rutherford B. Hayes

34. Herbert Hoover

35. John Tyler

36. George W. Bush

37. Millard Fillmore

38. Warren G. Harding

39. William Henry Harrison

40. Franklin D. Pierce

41. Andrew Johnson

42. James Buchanan

more at:
http://www.c-span.org/PresidentialSurvey/presidential-leadership-survey.aspx
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/15/111819/969/888/697801

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. No rating for shrub?

I would think he makes Buchanan look good.

[Renew Deal]

2. And two Bush family members at the bottom

Pierce is 3rd from last. Bush Jr. is 7th from last.

[progressoid]

3. Blah blah blah. Who cares what librul historians think anyway.

I actually heard someone dismiss these before because historians are "liberals". :eyes:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. RIGHT! how dare they base their opinions on facts and standards!

[Individualist]

5. Nixon 27?

That rank is way too high.

[blue_onyx]

6. George H. W. Bush seems too high on the list

He's only 3 spots behind Clinton.

[nevergiveup]

7. I loved Kennedy but don't think

he should be this high. Reagan should be in the bottom 10. "W" should be 42. Nice to see Ike in the top 10.